Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , of course , the importance of political parties makes it difficult for members of Parliament to claim to represent all their constituents ; but equally makes it difficult for them to assume delegate roles . |
| 2 | Indeed Robert Hathaway suggests that the universalist wording of the Truman Doctrine was in part designed to disarm those who suspected a British manoeuvre at America 's expense . |
| 3 | This week the hospice want to thank those who gave in memory of Mr Robinson , Mr Herring , Mr Gargett and Mr Nixon . |
| 4 | The eighteenth-century administration sought to protect those whom the intendant of Burgos called the ‘ wretched slaves ’ of the landlords : there were proposals to freeze rents at the 1770 level , to set up arbitration boards of peasants and landlords . |
| 5 | But as Phillips ' Amerind character would 've said , ‘ The spirit horse came to cart this one off about an hour ago . ’ |
| 6 | But as Phillips ' Amerind character would 've said , ‘ The spirit horse came to cart this one off about an hour ago . ’ |
| 7 | Unisys Corp plans to redeem all its $200m outstanding 9% notes due October 1 1993 at 100% of the principal amount of the notes , plus accrued interest at the end of the month . |
| 8 | They say it would allow them to provide the extra accomodation needed to house all their 300 undergraduates and are prepared to spend £5million buying and converting the building . |
| 9 | The difficulty with all policy-oriented research is that it begins by defining ‘ problems ’ and then by investigation helps to create that which lt wishes to observe' This type of research helps to create a cognitive revolution in its subjects and thus produces its expected findings . |
| 10 | The android continues to fulfil all its courtly duties and even becomes a trusted confidant of the Emperor , and the princess discovers it actually makes a better lover than the original . |
| 11 | I assumed there that you can say either ‘ The organism works to propagate all its genes ’ or ‘ The genes work to force a succession of organisms to propagate them . ’ |
| 12 | Amsterdam Travel Service guarantees to confirm all your holiday requirements within 1 hour ! |
| 13 | The therapist has to take all your details and to ask you certain questions to establish that you are indeed a suitable subject for hypnosis . |
| 14 | Joanne said : ‘ The service exists to answer all your European queries . |
| 15 | ‘ The Friend in Disgrace ’ is a dialogue in which one friend fails to recognize another who has suffered misfortune : |
| 16 | The Board decided to concentrate all its new building of carriages at Derby and Wolverton , Derby to be the HO Over the next decade , carriage works at Newton Heath , Plaistow , and Crewe were closed . |
| 17 | As he said himself , with something of a mixed metaphor : ‘ The baby seemed to have all its parts but was liable to fall to pieces in the hand . ’ |
| 18 | It is no use sending to jail those who can not feel . ’ |
| 19 | This rarely happens but if the same ferret continues to do this it is advisable to discard it or use it only as a muzzled ferret . |
| 20 | Does the Secretary of State intend to thank those who have given service to Queen and country by making them not only jobless , but homeless ? |
| 21 | This is an intolerable situation and society has to remove those who will not conform to reasonable standards of behaviour . |
| 22 | Not only has science failed to solve all our problems , it is increasingly viewed as a monster which threatens to destroy us and the planet . |
| 23 | ‘ The public wants to see those who have committed crimes punished in a visible way . |
| 24 | But in Britain , Thorn EMI owns the name Kenwood for electrical equipment — so Trio has to re-label all its ‘ Kenwood ’ equipment that it sells in Britain as ‘ Trio ’ . |
| 25 | The company decided to put all it 's litigation work , worth over a million pounds a year , out to tender . |
| 26 | He is currently also Senior Consultant of Information Agents Limited , a new company established to help those who own major information assets to trade in electronic information markets through licensing deals , joint ventures or strategic acquisitions . |
| 27 | In return the monarch undertook to protect those who had come under his ‘ high hand ’ . |
| 28 | School seems to offer both our groups of informants very little in the way of opportunities alternative to those formulated in the official theory of educational establishments . |
| 29 | This system aimed to give those who achieved literacy access to further training courses . |
| 30 | The leaders who went out to any area of European expansion had to make all their own decisions because it would take months , if not years , for their sovereign to reply to any request for instructions . |